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OK, here is what I have put together through trial and error! For those who do not want to use an airbrush and/or mix paints, and would rather use "out-ot-the-spraycan" colors; Al la Rouge Studios, here is my "Official" list

I went with a layered and topical approach, so after priming, the entire helmet was sprayed Silver first, and metallic silver spray will work, I used Krylon.

Of course this list does not figure in the "detail" colors, such as the grey, marroon and yellow "chipping" colors. For those a used testors flat enamels and hand mixed the shade I wanted. However this should be a good starting point for the base colors. I will add pics to this post to show my results very soon. Hope this helps some folks out!

Most of it was done layered and topical, while the back was done all topical. There are still fine scratching and a black-wash to be done in various places, but I'm happy with the results. I don't know the rustoleum sage, but SAC bomber is pretty close to Panzer Olive as far a I can tell. Without further ado, here are the pics (Keep in mind this is under incandescant lighting, at different times of day)

Thanks for the pics, Looks really, really good! How does it feel to have it almost all done. I'm going to see what colors I can get tonight, I'm leaning towards using the Rust-oleum Sage Green 1933 since I just bought 2 cans from Kibosh and paid to have it shipped from the Detroit a couple weeks ago.
J-ROCK

Pretty good J! Thanks! Funny, I've been "almsot done" for two months! I just wasn't happy with the back section until I just redid the color over the weekend. Still more work, but just in finishing details! Now I can get to work on my servo set-up! Yay!

I hear you KB! I have used an airbruch before, and it's not much different from using cans in the technique (mostly) just that its nuch bigger a process to set up and clean, etc. I'm pretty happy with the results. Of course in person it looks so much better than these photos. I'm pretty confident in the color list as far as accuracy goes. The only possible difference would be using the boxcar red spray instead of the tamiya dull red. The tamiya is a bit warmer than the floquil, which leans more to the marroon value.

I don't actually have the Box Car Red but I find it looks like your standard run of the mill "redoxide" primer color (pretty much brown)......I think it should be a little more Maroonish than brown? What do you guys think?

As I said, while not afraid to do it, I'd rather not fuss with the airbrush. Maybe if enough people agree that this is a definatetive readymade color list we can sticky it. I'd like Brak's and Rogue Studio's input, as well as anyone else that wishes to offer advise.

I think the brown primer-ish color is too brown. You're shooting for more of a ruudy marroon. For ESB that is. Maybe somone can put together a ROTJ addendum to this. It's mostly the same though... just the weathering colors vary, some of these could go for the different colors. Like the killmarks would only be the orangey yellow, without the lighter sshade, etc.

Yeah, the red is a little orangey for my taste. As I said, Floquil spray cans make the "official" boxcar red, I just have not tried that. I'm going to try a black wash to tone it down a bit and see if that helps. If I'm still not satisfied, I might repaint that section. (Heck, I painted the back 3 times!) More to come soon!

My goal was to avoid using an airbrush and mixing paints as much as possible. However, the battle damage colors are all hand mixed flat enamels. Those can be any kind you want really, just various grays, silvers, marroons and the weird yellow/beige color.

Hey Shinobi/Kibosh,
I painted my bucket over the holidays. As I mentioned above, I used the Rust-oleum Sage Green 1933 (Spray in an areosol can) that I bought from Kibosh for the dome and cheeks. It looks great (IMO) it is a little on the light side maybe, but that can be darkened with black wash. Any way, I don't want to hijack your thread so I'll post pics in a new thread. I just wanted to let you know it is another alternative to the airbrush.
J-ROCK

No no! Hijack away! the goal is to get a comprehensive list. For ESB, I'm going to use the SAC Bomber green for the gauntlets/JP/armor plates. So far as I can tell from the ref, and movie captures, these armor parts are the same color as the dome/cheeks. ROTJ is different, and a brighter green (as in the US medium green from the RS list) there are many opinions on this, but thats what I'm using, so the rustoleum sage should be good too. I'd like to see the match between Rustoleum sage and SAC bomber green... post pics!

The dome color of the helmet and the body armor are different shades of green. The helmet is more of a washed out olive and the armor is more of a deep green. From my pics and research at least. I use to think it was incorrect to have them not match but after looking into it I believe they are different. If you put your Empire DVD into a computer with a good color correct monitor and watch the well lit scenes in cloud city I think you will agree.

I am no expert by any stretch but I have learned alot form all of you guys and your hard work posting what you have learned so I feel I should do the same.

Props to every one and there coutless time spent finding out these details and sharing!!!